HINDMARSH, Edwin
| Service Number: | 4806 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Scone, New South Wales, Australia, 8 March 1885 |
| Home Town: | Lyra, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Bullecourt, France, 11 April 1917, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballandean Sons of the Empire, Stanthorpe Fallen Soldiers HR, Stanthorpe Soldiers Memorial, Toowoomba Queensland Railways Toowoomba Employees Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Wallangarra War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4806, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4806, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4806, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Edwin was the son of Peter and Mary Anne Hindmarsh of Lyra, Stanthorpe, Queensland. Known as ‘Eddie’ Hindmarsh, two of his brothers enlisted in the First World War. Only one of the three Hindmarsh soldiers survived the fighting. Eddie’s father had passed away during 1914. His younger brother, 5829 Pte. Arthur Frederick Hindmarsh 42nd Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Messines two months later on 10 June 1917, aged 21.
Eddie was seen to be killed instantly by shellfire near Bullecourt, and a mate said “he was a good soldier and a good friend and greatly missed by all.”
His identity disc was sent to his widowed mother during 1918.
A third brother, 213 Private William Charles Hindmarsh 31st Battalion AIF was returned to Australia for ‘family reasons’ during October 1918.
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